We need to deal with Social Security because 2034, 24% benefit cut, there
are millions of people in this country- >> [CROSSTALK] You won't talk about
that if you're the nominee?
>> You, of course I will, I'm talking about it right now.
>> Once again, we don't have enough money for those who have worked their entire
lives in America, we don't have enough money for them, we got to do something.
We have to increase the age, decrease the amount,
put it in a private equity firm or whatever the hell they're proposing today.
But once again, they will have enough money to kill as many people
as they choose, to bomb as many countries as they deem necessary.
But not enough money to take care of Mammadel who paid everything already.
>> Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, we got no money, the rates are going up, so
after we service our debt, we have no money for anything.
So the only thing that will solve any of this is probably growth.
Other people would argue we need more revenue, higher taxes,
like we didn't have enough.
How much did we have last year to spend and still didn't have enough?
>> Look, it's not higher taxes, Joe.
>> Well, that's what you're gonna hear.
>> Of course that's what you're gonna hear, but
that's what you always hear from the other side, there's two things you have to do.
You have to revitalize the economy to bring more growth, and secondly,
you have to reduce spending.
The fact is we have to look at things like means testing, for the very wealthy,
don't need to get Social Security.
And secondly, for people in their 30s and 40s, we need to consider raising
the retirement age, they'll have plenty of time to plan for that.
Not for guys like me who are 60, but for people in their 30s or 40s.
>> According to a recent Ipsos poll, nearly nine in ten Americans,
oppose reducing spending on Social Security for Medicare, all right?
Share of U.S adults who say they oppose reducing
spending in select areas, look at it.
Now stay there for a minute, keep that graphic up,
because I wanna make a comparison here.
When your elected leaders or people who are asking for you to vote for
them, remember what they're asking for, they're not asking for
a vote, they're asking for you to allow them to represent you.
Let me say that again, for you to allow them to represent you.
If you do not believe there should be a reduction in
Social Security and Medicaid, you should not vote for
a person who will represent that value cuz it's contrary to yours.
But we still have this happening with guns in America,
we have it happening as it relates to a woman's right to choose, in America.
Literally, there are people who say, vote for me, I'll represent you,
but I won't represent that value, and I won't represent this value,
I won't represent that.
And they still get elected by the same people that would say they disagree with
the values of the individual they just voted for.
There's more, 88% opposed cuts to Social Security and Medicare,
that's what it is, 76% opposed cuts to Medicaid and food assistance.
And coming in below both of those, 66%,
they oppose cuts to National Security, all right, isn't that interesting?
A YouGov poll found that Social Security and
Medicare are among the most popular, they call entitlement programs.
Democrats and Republicans both view each of them more favorably than not and
let me correct the record, an entitlement program is not what you already pay in.
You are, let's say, a corporation, if you are a corporation and
you get a tax abatement benefit because you're just a corporation and
the state likes you, that's entitlement.
Now, that's a damn entitlement program for years, that kind of program we don't even
understand, we've never experienced that kind of program.
But these programs exist all over the place,
and we don't ever contextualize it as an entitlement program for them.
A majority of Americans (57%) say Social Security should be given more funding.
One in five (21%) want its funding to remain at current levels,
and just 11% would actually want it to be reduced.
66% of Democrats want Social Security to get more funding,
54% of Republicans want the same damn thing, more funding, not less.
More funding, not less, but once again,
96% of Americans believe that police reform is required.
Over 90% of Americans agree with having
background checks for folks that buy all guns.
They're not representing you as my point.
If the majority of Americans believe in these things, and there is not one single
piece of legislation taken seriously to promote these values,
we have a disconnect between all political classes and us.
>> Man, it's really unfortunate the way we treat the elderly in this country and
people that are in their 60s and 70s are still working in America cuz they cannot
afford to live off of Social Security.
My mother is on Social Security and I have to support her, I think it's embarrassing,
I think it's sad.
It's become this American view or this American thing when I come from
people that come from different countries and
they'll say Americans don't care about the elderly in Asia.
They revere and respect the elderly in Africa, they revere and
respect the elderly everywhere else but in America, it's like you are only valuable
as long as you are making money for these corporations.
But those people work for that money, Social Security is a benefit that
you earn from the taxes that you paid while you were working.
And imagine all of you people who are voting against it now,
where are your dollars are gonna go when you become older?
This whole idea and attack the ageism in this country, it is the one acceptable
ageism that doesn't have any consequences, it is just so awful to hear.
But like you said, the majority of people in this country do want Social Security.
Most of us want it to go up because we want our elderly to be cared for,
we want their needs to be met.
Most of us do know that welfare and food stamps is essential for some people's
survival, so they don't end up on the streets and enjoying the unhoused.
I think that the majority of the people in this country are not rich,
are not driving G-Wagons, do not have an excess of diamonds, and
can take trips whenever they want.
Most people in this country are working, we respected them during the pandemic cuz
they were risking their lives for us, and we called them essential.
Now we have forgotten about them, they're getting evicted and losing their homes and
we continue to have the same conversations over and over again at nauseam, and
nothing seems to change.
And at some point, we have to be accountable for our actions and
when we talk about actions, I'm talking about voting,
cuz Republicans nor Democrats have made the world better for any of us.
They are doing, like I said, political theater, they're tweeting,
they have time to go out.
When they decide that they are not in session, they go and
do the things that they need to do.
They have health care, their kids go to the best schools, they live
in the good neighborhoods, they have the nice clothes, they live the better lives.
And here you are, American, struggling for your basic needs, and
you continue to employ these people who are supposed to be working for you.
At some point we have to do something, Social Security is essential,
our elderly need us to take care of them the way they took care of us, as you said.
But now we're not doing anybody a favor, these people worked for that money, and
they are entitled to it and they should have more of it.
>> Absolutely, 100% concur, and
you made some powerful points that I wanna highlight.
Essential workers, man, it was a great terminology, was it not?
But I hated to remind essential workers of this one thing,
if they don't give you essential pay- >> That's right.
>> Don't fall for them really believing you are an essential worker,
you are a necessary worker for them to keep their bottom line going,
to be a catalyst to their interest.
But if you were essential, they would provide you with the essential resources,
the necessities required for life, but they won't.
And to your point about electing individuals who cannot understand
our environment, where we come from, our experiences.
Keep in mind everybody is a collection of three E's, me included, experiences,
exposures, and environments, that's who we are, that's all we are.
We are experiences, exposures and environments.
We have come to a place where we elect good branders,
they can brand themselves as if they are so connected and down with your cause.
But look at where they come from, what they have come through,
what they have endured, what they have fought for, what they have sacrificed,
what they have changed when nobody was watching.
Experience, exposure, and environment, these folks, they are so disconnected.
They'll make a policy decision adverse to your entire family,
with a smile because of their experiences, exposures, and environments.
Now, ironically, Donald Trump is actually connected to the base in a way that
other Republicans are not.
So, at least one issue where Trump is clearly more in touch is here,
in rhetoric at minimum, not his actual policy, because he's called out
Republican opponents for wanting to cut Social Security safety net program.
So, the Trump campaign said that, as president, Trump,
and I quote, has consistently showed, he would always protect entitlements.
In contrast, DeSantis has consistently voted to cut entitlements,
and has long advocated raising the age of retirement.
Even with his incredibly unpopular economic positions
Christie believes, he is what it takes, he's the person,
he got it to beat Trump, all right, here it is.
>> There's a lot to say and a lot to differentiate, and that's exactly what I'm
going to do and nobody else in this race is willing to do it.
They're afraid to do it, or they're unable to do it, and we're gonna do it.
>> Why is that?
>> Well, I think over time, Donald Trump has cowed a lot of people, Becky and
people get upset about being called names in public.
I'm from New Jersey, I get called names in public all the time, it doesn't matter,
I'm used to it and I've known him for 22 years.
I think the difference is, most of the people in politics have only known him for
eight or nine or ten years, I've known him for 22 years, I'm not afraid of him,
he's a paper tiger.
>> [LAUGH] >> But he called you names,
too, [CROSSTALK] And you didn't do a damn thing about it, sir.
[CROSSTALK] That's how I would have answered Chris Christie in that moment.
All right, my sister, what's your thoughts?
[LAUGH] >> No, I was,
did he go get his dry cleaning or something?
[LAUGH] >> [LAUGH]
>> Did he get his dry cleaning exactly?
It's so funny how everybody's so bold and talking about the differences
of this one and the other one, the reality of it is this is all garbage.
And that to sit there and advocate for Social Security to get cut or
to be reduced or whatever it is, because you got a 401(k), you got a pension,
you got all the protections that a lot of people don't have.
So, you can advocate for Social Security to be less than for
those people, it's so just wrong and it's so disgusting man,
the people in this country are struggling, they're struggling.
And it's in the mind, too, because they voted for that military spending, because
they're being constantly reminded that we are under attack, that we're in danger.
The propaganda is always having the American live in fear.
But it's also so sad that they are in a state of not knowing that they're voting
against their best interests because they don't know any better and
when you don't know better, you can't do better.